Maquis
( SOE ) ( SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE ) MILLAR, George
[Second Impression.]
FINE ASSOCIATION COPY OF AN SOE CLASSIC IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Heinemann, [1946]
Stock code: 49339
Price: £740.00
8vo., Second Impression; original red cloth, gilt back, brown endpapers, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the later lightly age-soiled on (predominanyl white) rear panel. .
A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED (JUNE 1945) BY TWO FRENCH PARENTS AS A SOUVENIR OF THEIR TWO SONS' SERVICE WITH THE MAQUIS IN HAUTE-SAVOIE. Published in the same month as the first edition. EXTREMELY SCARCE WITH THE DUSTWRAPPER IN THIS CONDITION. 'A clear, intense picture of life in Occupied France, as seen first by an escaper and then by an SOE organiser' (Foot). The book 'gives a matchless account of how to live hour by hour, never knowing whether you will see the next through: De Gaulle told him [the auhor] in a private interview that this is the best account of life in the maquis, though he could not say so in public' (ODNB). Enser p.51; Foot, p.400 (recording the first edition)..